Hey guys, this is my first ever Fairy Tail fan fiction. Actually, it's my first Anime fan fiction. I'm used to writing about live action characters. But all in all, i hope you enjoy!
Between worlds, between the fragments of Heaven and Earth, there is the Celestial Spirit World. Inside of this world is home to the many different spirits who's main purpose in life is to serve their Celestial Wizard owners. Celestial wizards are well known to be ill tempered, sometimes rude, bossy and in a lot of need of their spirits. At least, this was the normality of Celestial Spirits that people thought of in the Human world. Though there were a lot of Celestial Wizards who worked this way with their spirits, not all of them were that bad in the slightest.
Celestial Spirits lived on the idea of honour, their contracts to their Wizards was absolute Law. If they were to break their contracts by not following orders, then they would lose their honour and their right to live within the Celestial World. Celestial Spirits can never live forever outside their World, soon enough they would fade away and never to be seen by anyone ever again. Human or Spirit alike.
Only one Celestial Spirit has ever been known to live outside the Spirit World longer than a couple of days. He had lived to the tell the tale. He was a lucky guy, you can only suppose that's what you get when you're a Zodiac Spirit.
Within the Celestial world, there was slight conflict. The time of the year wasn't the issue, the day of the week, the amount of Spirits present, none of that was the issue at all. The issue was much greater, and it bothered the Celestial Spirit King greatly.
The King sat at his throne in the overbearingly large throne room, the entire roof was missing, or so it looked at first glance. Instead the roof was glass, so all Spirits could see stars and other worlds around them. The walls were made of crystal and marble, the flooring was made of see through crystal so there was no visible floor. Again, so people could see the stars and other worlds to make them feel a lot more comfortable inside of the palace.
As the King looked around his throne room, he saw the faces he'd called to meet his presence. The Zodiac Spirits were the strongest of the Celestial Spirits, aside from the King, their strength was unmatchable. Their skills varied, meaning that though their strengths were unmatchable to the other Spirits, humans and other threats. To each other, every one of the Spirits would find it to be massively difficult to completely defeat each other to retiring to the Celestial World to heal.
The King studied the Zodiacs, they were muttering amongst themselves idly whilst The King remained silent. He counted his friends, everyone of them were apart from three. Libra, Aquarius and Leo. Where they could be after the King had summoned them, he did not know, but he wasn't particularly happy about it.
"Excuse me, your majesty?" Cancer asked beside him, "Maybe we should start, and fill in the late arrivals on the information later on?" The cool vibe within his voice always made the King have the urge to laugh out loud. He held back and nodded, in that instance, everyone went to silence.
The King cleared his throat to speak, "There have been issues within this World, and it has been bothering my mind for far too long. The line between the Laws that we abide by, have indeed been...broken at times. It makes me uncomfortable to know that you, my loyal subjects, have also been accustomed to do the same." The King sighed, "I spoke with my most trusted of men, and we have come to a conclusion that some Laws - some more than others - need to be modified. The only way I found this to be done fairly, is if you, my friends, helped me do that."
A murmur across the table spread, comets spread through the sky for a while. Three of them, they were back. The King averted his gaze back to his friends, they were silent now, all had seemingly spotted the comets also. The King sighed, "I must admit, I understand many you will have completely different views to each Law. Though if we get started now, I'm sure we will not take too much time, and that you will make it in time for other appointments." He cleared his throat, "First Law: Contracts between Celestial Wizards and Spirits..."
The hours went on, they had finished coming up with three modifications to the first law, the law of the contracts between Celestial Wizards and their spirits. The minority agreed that they would prefer a archived contract, written, and signed by both their wizard and themselves, that they both agree to be manageable. Word of mouth, and verbal agreements only went so far between some wizards.
Each contract also had to be stamped officially by their King, which the King assured he will try to do in extreme haste due to the obvious need of some contracts. Safety in their wizards was still top priority.
If a wizard wants to end a contract early, or a spirit wishes to do the same, they would both have to have a meeting with the King. If the reasons meet his criteria, then he shall agree to abolish their contracts.
The only problem was now that they'd come up with a new modified law, they needed all 12 Zodiacs to sign it. Unfortunately, only 9 were there.
"Where could those morons be?" Capricorn said stubbornly, "They do realise they're disobeying the King's call?"
"Careful brother, my girlfriend is one of those morons you're mentioning there." Scorpio muttered.
Capricorn snorted, "Sure, whatever."
"I hope Leo is okay, he and Lucy went on a guild mission a few days ago. I fear it may have meant he had to stay out of the Spirit world for a few days longer than anticipated." Aries mumbled, trembling as she did.
"Idiot!" Gemi giggled.
"An Idiot he is!" Mini laughed along.
Aries sighed, "I'm sure that Lucy did not mean for him to stay out this long, it isn't like her to ask too much of him."
"Must be important" Taurus mumbled. "Miss Lucy would never intentionally make Leo break the rules."
The King sighed, "I'm sure Aquarius and Libra also have a good excuse of their tardiness."
Cancer sighed too, "You never know with women, sire."
Virgo raised a brow, "Are you suggesting due to the sex of the Zodiacs, that counts for their meaning of tardiness? How dare you suggest that because of our gender..."
"Don't worry baby, I didn't mean much for it." Cancer muttered.
Virgo growled under breath.
The King sighed deeply, "I shall call them once more." He held his staff high, "I the King of the Celestial World call the Zodiac Spirits, Leo, Aquarius and Libra to my throne room for a meeting of the Zodiacs, AT ONCE!" He yelled.
It was a matter of seconds before the throne room doors opened wide. There stood Leo, Aquarius and Libra. All dressed appropriately. Leo sat in his slightly higher chair than the other Zodiacs. He looked exhausted as he spoke, "Apologies for our lateness, Aquarius and I..." He looked to her, "We were sorting our business relating to our owner. Lucy Heartfilia."
"What business was that, I ask?" The King mumbled.
Leo smirked, "Our wizard master was in trouble on one of her missions, she had first called Aquarius to help, unfortunately, Aquarius needed more help than she'd like to admit."
"Careful, Cat boy." Aquarius growled.
"Anyway, Lucy had used the last of her strength to summon another spirit. Me." Leo shrugged, "She kept us by encase we were needed, she somehow had kept us there for a good two days before finally letting us go. We're a little exhausted."
The King raised a brow, "And the mission was...successful?"
"Indeed, the fire dragon slayer defeated the person in question that they needed to defeat in a great amount of time. Fortunately, that means our wizard will have a home for another month due to the general mission itself able to pay her rent and feed her for another month." Leo sighed, "Enough about my mysterious little wizard master, what is the matter at hand?" He had a playful smile on his face when he looked around the room.
They had filled Leo in on what was happening, he agreed that the brand new modified contact Law was very much valid in his eyes. He liked the idea of it, very much so. It would mean he and Lucy could spend time together over a cup of tea in her humble apartment, together, they could rewrite their contract to fulfill their needs.
They all signed the new law.
New modified laws were made over the next day and a half, the Zodiacs only breaking if they needed a walk around or to use restrooms. Leo liked the new laws, at least, some of them which he soon found out, he hated one of them.
"The matter of...being able to stay in the human world for long periods of time." The King sighed, "I want there to be more stability on that."
"What do you mean by that?" Virgo asked.
"What'cha mean?" Gemi asked.
"What he mean?" Mini asked.
Leo had been dreading it, but it was about time this law was somewhat...brought up. He pushed his glasses up his nose and sighed, "Let me guess, it has been narrowed down so we're only allowed out no longer than a few days?"
"Shorter than that, unfortunately for your little...holidays, Leo."
Leo glared at him, "How short?"
The King raised a brow, "I'm suggesting two days, maximum, unless it is told to me there is great reason that you're outside the spirit world."
Leo widened his eyes, and stood up from his chair. Hiding his face of the anger as he said lowly, "Two days. Two?"
"Unlike you, lover boy, we can't stay out as long as you can and have done," Scorpio muttered. "We all know you like spending time with the hussy master we share, more than you probably should do."
"Meaning, bug face?" Leo growled.
Aquarius growled back, "Meaning we all know the only reason that you have objections to this new modified law, is because you are infatuated with your mistress!"
"I'm not!" Leo yelled.
"You are!" Aquarius yelled back, "You hardly hid it from the world when you shone that hideous sign of light for her. What did that say again? 'I love Lucy!' Am I warm?" She teased nastily.
Leo shook with anger, "I would never allow my feelings get in the way of saving her life, her life always comes before my emotions. Whether they are affectionate for her or not, Lucy is my master. Nothing more."
Aries sighed, "But Leo, you've come to save her so many times without her summoning you. No spirit does that unless under severe danger of their master, you go out ... uninvited sometimes."
Leo threw his hands in the air, "I like to make sure she's okay, OK? I like making sure she's safe, it puts my mind at ease. Plus we were friends before this whole master and spirit thing, remember?"
The King finally interjected on the argument, "Leo, tell me do you think its in your best interests to have these emotions for Lucy Heartfilia?"
Leo sat back down, silence filled the throne room. Leo looked up to the King, his eyes burning in anger, "Lucy saved my life, I have a soft spot for her, sure enough. I would never in a million years have a relationship with her other than a professional one."
The King nodded, "If indeed you're sure on the matter...then I accept it."
"I am" Leo said simply.
"So then, it is agreed. No spirit is allowed out of the spirit world for more than two days, unless it is agreed by myself that it is allowed to be extended?"
Everyone nodded by Leo, who sighed deeply before doing so.
"That's everything," The King said finally, "I suggest you all rest up, no one knows when a wizard will need their spirits." He banged a hammer on the table, and the meeting was over.
Leo went back to his resting place, getting out a book of his liking, reading it slowly. Even though the words were inspirational, beautiful, and so on. He could not get his head round the ever invasive rules of the Celestial world. He sighed, "Two days at the least, without a King barging in. How am I supposed to create a relationship with that?" Leo said depressingly, he then frowned. "No, Lucy is just my master whom I very much admire and respect. Nothing more."
Jesus, Loke. We both know that's a load of crap.
Thank you for reading, the story will take a little while before the whole reason the new laws are important. And why there are other problems to Loke not wanting to be too far away from Lucy. Review! Thanks again!